National Bridge Inventory

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Keywords
Theme: Bridges, Inventory, Apraisel
Place: United States

Description
Abstract
The NBI is a collection of information (database) covering the more than 600,000 bridges located on public roads, including Interstate Highways, U.S. highways, State and county roads, as well as publicly-accessible bridges on Federal lands. It presents a State by State summary analysis of the number, location, and general condition of highway bridges within each State.

Although the inventory contains locational information, it's accuracy is unverified, and in many cases the information is not provided or incorrect.  Using information from the inventory, an attempt was made to conflate the bridges to a common reference network, TeleAtlas's DynaMap for Transportation.  Over 75% of the inventroy was successfully conflated.  the remaining bridges are included in this shapefile, but are located at longitude-latitude 0-0.

Purpose
To document the physical characteristics and condition of the nation's road bridges.

Supplementary Information
The attributes of this shapefile are defined in the document "Recording and Coding Guide for the Structure Inventory and Appraisal of the Nations Bridges."  A pdf version of the document, mtguide.pdf, is included with this shapefile.

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